Iranian Modernity: Intellectuals and the Paradigm of Iran's Backwardness معرفی و نقد

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In addition to the foreword and introduction, the present book is compiled in 9 chapters, and its goal is to explain the nature of Iranian modernity. In the first and second chapters, while paying attention to the socio-cultural and political conditions of the formation of modernization thought, the theoretical framework is explained. The author's pattern in this book is a paradigmatic pattern; because it was assumed that examining intellectual thought based on paradigmatic transformation is more effective compared to other methods: The emphasis on the relationship and conflict between "tradition and modernity" as the main intellectual issue in the recent period has led to the discussion of repetitive and contradictory topics; because the expansion of these matters follows the misconception that Iranian intellectuals in the contemporary period have taken a wrong path and are stagnating. In this book, five paradigms for the intellectual current of Iran are mentioned: The first paradigm is the backwardness paradigm, which coincides with the formation of modern Iran until the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Critique and Review Iranian Modernity is a book about the thought and paradigmatic transformation of intellectuals in Iran. From the very beginning, it can be guessed that the author describes Iranian modernity through the encounters of intellectuals with the issues of Iran. As the author himself has stated, the focus of the present book is the expression of intellectuals' thoughts through the lens of the backwardness paradigm (p. Previously, in the book "Modernization Thought in Iran" (2000), the author attempted to examine these thoughts through the paradigm of underdevelopment.